Workshops

Summer Workshop

Ithaca College, Introduction to Drawing, Summer Music Camp for High School Students, June/July 2011.

Recent Workshops 

March 11 - 13, 2011 -  Color Woodcut workshop at The Rusty Barn Studio in Santa Barbara, CA.

April 4, 6, 8,  2011 - AP Portfolio Project, in collaboration with Ithaca High School and Carol Spence.  

April 5, 7, 12, 14, 2011 -   Intro to Relief Printmaking, at the Ink Shop Printmaking Center. 

May 17, 19, 24, 26, 2011 -  Combination Print, at the Ink Shop Printmaking Center.

This is The Rusty Barn Studio in Santa Barbara, California where taeacht for  three day intensives about the Combination Print or Color Woodcut.  Up to 8 printmakers joined me for the three days to produce some wonderful prints.  It is wonderful  to work with experienced printmakers and to have a great studio to work in. 

ITHACA COLLEGE 
          I am teaching Introduction to Printmaking: Relief/Intaglio at Ithaca College as an adjunct professor in the art department, Spring 2010,  Fall 2010, and Spring 2011, Fall 2011. I will also teach Introduction to Drawing,  Fall 2011. 

Printmakers of Cape Cod invited me to teach the Combination Print workshop this past July at Cape Cod Community College.  This full three day workshop was fantastic.  Leslie Kramer hosted me at her house and the whole experience was wonderful.  I was honored to teach this group of experienced printmakers in a well-equipped studio.  We created some great prints. Thanks to all who helped make this event such a success. 

I teach a number of workshops to people of all ages and backgrounds. I have taught elementary, middle, and high school students, as well as college and university students, beginners to professionals. I have been guest artist/speaker at SUNY Brockport, Elmira College, Cornell University, Alfred University, and Russell Sage Colleges.

PUBLIC SCHOOL WORKSHOPS
          South Seneca High School, Ovid, NY   -- January - February 2010
          Ithaca High School, Ithaca, NY with Advanced Placement Art students -- April 2010 and 2011.
         

For school programs, I work closely with teachers to design a course that best fits the needs of the students and school curriculum.  I have taught with the following schools: Dryden School District Art Teachers, Ithaca High School, Dryden High School, South Seneca High School, Watkins Glen Middle School, Enfield Elementary School. 

If you are interested in a tutorial or a workshop, feel free to contact me.

My teaching approach:  Good instruction in the visual arts is key to having an educated public who appreciates fine art. I believe teaching is most rewarding and successful when the instructor can convey excitement with the process, the necessary skills to accomplish the task of producing the image, and then finally supporting the student’s ability to assess the results. 

These are the following workshops I can teach:

• Intro to Printmaking
• Textured Print
• Painterly Print
• Intro to Collagraphy
• Monoprinting with Oil-Based Inks
• Combination Print
• Gum  Transfer
• Introduction to Matting and Framing
• Color Reduction Woodcut and Relief
• Intaglio/ Painterly Processes: Aquatint, Soft Ground, White Ground, Spit-bite